How fast do you guys ride? (MPH) - Page 3

21.2 mph average speed for 206 miles and 7500 feet of climbing


yikes! i'm glad you live in wyoming!!!!! that's damn fast to me

great job!

-Mike

If you tick the heartrate box your heart stopped when you crashed

Thats a very cool website, will have to get one of those Garmin thingys.

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Yep, it is the Edge 305, but I suppose the HR strap was not getting good contact in that flat line. This is what the ride would have looked like without the crash.

I don't think I will get up to Piotr's 58 downhill speed.

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If you were riding alone for this (not in a group or behind a derny), and weren't riding on a 170km downhill ride, or with a wind behind you this is improbable.

Unless of course you are a really good pro. (or drafting one)

With a group, on a flat ride, without too much wind this is plausible, but alone? No way.

How do I know? I ride elites in Holland, which is totally flat, (although very windy) and it's considered "good form" for an elite rider riding alone (on a not windy day) to get a shade under 3 hours for a 100km training ride. another 70km on that, with a higher speed? alone? Sorry.....

Dave, your wife's a bit of a hammer too, if Wyoming as as hilly as rumoured. Now if your kid's tricylcle time is in double digits, that's pretty impressive too.

Wyoming's got its hills, but Jackson Hole is either pretty flat or straight up and down depending on the road you choose. Her game is hockey and telemark skiing, I wouldn't want to stand in front of one of her slapshots.....But she really tears up fresh powder, the attached shot is a typical day of spring backcountry skiing under blue skies. Believe it or not, there's more to life than cycling

-Dave

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Yeh there's bike riding

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I looked up the power file from my own 172 km solo ride I did at the end of September. I averaged 33 km/h, but this includes riding out of a major city and back downtown, which takes a good 1.25 hours, each way. This really impacts your average power and speed.

I did average 35 km/h (AP 265 w, NP 286 w) for a 130 km strectch in the middle of the ride, however.

I love average speed posts, especially when there are so many variables involved in average cycling speeds.

Anyway, my speed ranges are generally pretty broad. I commuted for years after I retired from racing. And I got a pretty good idea of my speeds over the years. In the winter, when I was commuting to work, it was between a 16.5 to 17 mph average for a 51-mile commute. In the summer, it was much faster, 20 to 21 mph.

When I wasn't commuting, you know, fighting SUVs in the city, hopping parking lot curbs and riding through someone's backyard to take a shortcut (that's no joke, by the way ), my speeds were higher. In the summer, on a weekend ride (not commuting), I could average 23 for a couple hours. Now that tired me out!

Some of you may know that I stopped riding altogether for a couple years (back injury...hit by a car), but I started riding again almost a year ago. Currently, I don't know what my typical average speeds are since I have been living in one of the world's most crowded cities (Seoul, Korea) for the past year, and I usually have to stop about every 100 meters for whatever to get out of the city. And anyway, most of my training here is done on the trainer.

I did do a 1000-ft. climb here this past summer at 15-16 mph. I don't know the distance, but I got to the top in well under 9 minutes.

i averaged 12 mph for 25 miles today.

and damn proud of it!

This would be an ok speed on a crappy mtn bike or an $80 Dept store bike!

Hmph! Not everyone rides a road bike, especially for touring rides or commuting. 12 mph or 19 kmph is about what a typical rider here would average on a typical recreational ride on what you would call a hybrid bike.